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Studies in Humanities

itself would indicate that there can be no genuinely thorough comprehension of other areas of study unless the student has at leas...

Misconduct in Scientific Cases

biphenyls" combined to prove up to "1000 times more potent in mimicking estrogen when tested in combination" (ORI casesummaries.as...

Debate on the Bell Curve

upon such a broad and inaccurate scale. One of the reasons why critics argue that the bell curve is inadequate at determini...

Portrayals of Good Science Gone Bad in Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, H.G. Wells, and Mary Shelley

jump into a review of these novels it is necessary to first examine the predominant state of mind of Victorian Europe. During the...

1940s' Scientific and Technological Developments

The discovery in the 1940s that ticks are attracted to a cloth which had been impregnated with the scent of a dog (Miller, 1996), ...

Nurture vs. Nature in an Exploration of Criminal Behavior

biological determinism and the changing values of our day which expose us on a daily basis to such concepts as criminal deviancy h...

Conservationists Face Off Against Clearcutters

that even in a clear cut area, once the building is up or the subdivision in place, grass, trees and other green leafies are added...

Overview of the Romantic Age

In the various paintings, one can see an appreciation of nature figuring more prominently as well as a celebration of the emotiona...

Cloning of Human Beings Should Not Be Allowed for Religious, Scientific, and Moral Reasons

womb, is upon the world. These are issues of science fiction, but as time goes on they become science fact, a situation that has t...

An Analysis of the Text The Sexual Politics of Sickness

growing fears about it; and potential illness as a result. The standard birth takes place in a clinical hospital where the patient...

Cosmos Origins, Religion, and Science

period of time? The purpose of this paper is to use various sources written about the topic in order to attempt to answer this all...

Aristotle on Nonrelative Virtues

In five pages virtues and their relativity are debated by Aristotelian philosophy and an argument by Martha Nussbaum featured in ...

The Blair Witch Project Film, the Newtonian Revolution, and Phaedo by Plato

In six pages this report examines individual understanding of the world as considered in Plato's Phaedo, in the scientific inquiry...

Nature vs. Nurture in Gender Issues

tendencies do not come as naturally to girls as it does to boys. Consequently, coaching techniques must accommodate the differing...

Science, Philosophy, and God's Existence

Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...

Dennis Bonnette's Origin Of The Human Species

In a paper consisting of seven pages the philosopher Bonnette is compared with Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle in the contention that...

Impact of Isaac Newton and That Apple Tree

the notion of gravity. Although its uncertain if the story is true (Newton was known for observing the fall of apples from his mot...

Laudan, Boyd, and Putnam on Scientific Realism

In four pages scientific realism is examined in the concepts of Laudan, Putnam, and Boyd. Two sources are cited in the bibliograp...

Scientific Realism Argument

In nine pages scientific realism as supported by Forrest's article is assessed. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

Debate on Globalization

forms of global interaction (Held and McGrew, 2000). Rather then chance encounters, globalization refers to "entrenched and enduri...

A Political Perspective on School Choice

Many of these corporations have already been lobbying the state legislature. Many question whether this is an ethical way to run ...

Agnosticism and Thomas Huxley

had not evolved gradually as Darwin asserted, but had been created by God at a specific time in pre-history and the species which ...

Stem Cell Uses and Pope Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum

In five pages this paper applies the theological arguments of Pope Leo XIII in Rerum Novarum to the ongoing stem cell usage debate...

Workings of Science

probability that is usually scarcely less than complete proof (PG). Sometimes things have been demonstrated by the principles and ...

Social Welfare Policy Arguments Both For and Against

injustice. Mead is compassionate but tough. He does not buy into notions that suggest society must do something about the poor. Af...

Pros and Cons of Stem Cell Research

cells. THE HARVESTING AND RESEARCHING OF STEM CELLS In November 1998, the University of Wisconsin and several other leading unive...

Scientific Perspectives of Nathaniel Hawthorne

The information, however, should prove sufficient for further investigation on the part of the student. Tales and Sketches: Scie...

Alowing Cloning Would Be a Mistake

more to this argument to quote Scripture that indicates Gods commandments that human beings venerate life. Furthermore, by request...

Perspectives on Time

Barbour, time is merely an illusion (Anonymous, 2000). In his ruminations on time, Augustine contemplates the subjectivity of tim...

'No Miracles' Argument and Scientific Realism

not in the business of representing aspects of the world, there is no way to argue for a plurality of moral truths, simply from th...